Daily Nurse

APRIL 4, 2025

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses ( AACN ) has published “ AACN Scope and Standards for Progressive Care Nursing Practice ,” marking the first time a stand-alone edition has been tailored specifically to this growing specialty.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Among the challenges of telepalliative models is the vastly diverse scope of services and care delivery approaches that they can encompass, though a few common threads exist, Greer stated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

The continuing resolution also extended waivers that expanded the scope of practitioners eligible to provide telehealth services, as well as flexibilities that removed geographic requirements and expanded originating sites for telehealth services, including or federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2025

Blue Ridge Hospice is rebranding under the name Blue Ridge Care to signify its expanded mission and scope of services. The new brand brings all of the companys business lines together in a single, cohesive identity.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

and spiritual care providers during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2025

But not all SPMI patients fall into this scope, even if their symptoms are burdensome, making it challenging to determine appropriateness for palliative psychiatric care, Westermair said. Having guidelines around eligibility could lay the groundwork for measuring quality of life among these individuals, she stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The scope of terminal conditions among hospice patient populations has seen some evolutions in recent years, according to Alix Ware, director of health policy at the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance).

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Regulatory obstacles can arise if the overall workforce does not grasp the full scope of compliance across different business lines, she said. Remedying these issues takes intentional staff training and onboarding for both back-office and interdisciplinary teams.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2025

Sponsored by Assemblymember Rebecca Edgeworth (R-Las Vegas, District 35), the newly proposed bill introduced a number of measures that could widen the scope of state enforcement activity. Nevada is among the four hotbed states seeing escalating program integrity issues in recent years, joined by Arizona, California and Texas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of these programs are operated by nonprofit organizations supported by philanthropy and fundraising, as current pediatric palliative, hospice and respite reimbursement does not support the full scope of interdisciplinary services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2025

Additionally, Nevada lawmakers in March introduced a bill proposing a number of measures that could widen the scope of state enforcement activity. To date, only California has ramped up oversight with integration of new laws in recent years designed to limit growth of new hospices.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2025

But these fall short of addressing the diverse scope of practical, emotional and financial needs, he stated. More innovative care models and disease-specific reimbursement options have widened pathways for hospice providers to improve family caregiver support, Lee said in a recent Hospice News Elevate podcast.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2025

GUIDE model payment rates are insufficient to cover the full scope of care needed, particularly when it comes to clinical services, he stated. Increasing labor expenses serve as a large obstacle to the evaluation of the GUIDE model, Brunnick said.

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MARCH 7, 2025

The post-hospice carve-in landscape left lingering questions around the potential for a widening scope of palliative value-based reimbursement. Payment models like MCCM and VBID may help to paint a broader picture around palliative cares value proposition in more ways than one, Farrand indicated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CAPC surveyed 150,000 health care professionals between December 2021 and January 2022 to gauge the efficacy and scope of their quality improvement efforts to advance equity among Black patients with serious illnesses.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

Also important will be the scope of palliative reimbursement changes on the horizon that could, Farrand said. Because if we dont have the ability to be more comfortable with it, were going to continue to have a lot of difficulty explaining what palliative care can do.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

In 2022, the company rebranded as Vynca to reflect its broadened scope of clinical services and now provides care across five Western states. The company launched as an advanced care planning technology platform and expanded into the palliative care provider space through its 2021 acquisition of California-based Resolution Care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Differences exist in the scope of data being reviewed by MAC auditors, as well as the audit appeals approval and denial processes, said Ashley Arnold, senior vice president of quality at St. The issue has some hospice providers delving deeper into a range of compliance strategies. Croix Hospice.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

They also spoke about the need for greater integration of hospice into the larger health care continuum and the benefits of operators broadening their scope of services. During these conversations, four key themes rose to the forefront for the coming year.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Much of their reimbursement lives in the fee-for-service Medicare landscape, which is insufficient to support the full scope of interdisciplinary palliative care services. The research highlights prolific financial issues for palliative care providers and their patients.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Some organizations may have difficulty thriving in 2025s regulatory climate, which could change the scope of available assets, he stated. The regulatory evolutions taking shape will make the next year a time of reckoning for poor-performing hospice operators, regardless of whether theyre a nonprofit or for-profit entity, according to Lillis.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Adult patients may receive curative treatments alongside palliative care services, but the scope of coverage can be more limited for some patients with lower symptom burdens, according to Karlin. Key points to highlight with patients include examining the differences between pediatric and adult palliative services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Michigan-based Corewell Health Childrens program has expanded and diversified the scope of its pediatric services during the last decade of operations. Delivering goal concordant care has been the largest strategic lever to its growth.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The scope of hospice deals in 2024 encompassed joint ventures and collaborative affiliations in addition to acquisitions. Hospice investment trends took myriad routes this year, seeing a few common threads occurring among nonprofit and for-profit entities that hint at where the market may be heading.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The rebrand is designed to reflect the organizations growing scope of services for seriously and terminally ill patients. South Carolina-based Hospice Care of the Lowcountry is rebranding as MiraSol Health. The hospices new name contains the Latin word Sol, meaning sun.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Narrowing the scope of telehealth utilization would have significant impacts on patient access and workforce capacity, she said. The Washington-based organization provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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AJN Off the Charts

AUGUST 19, 2024

I didn’t realize how drastically different each states’ Nurse Practice Act could be in terms of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) scope of practice. State laws, like those for APRN scope of practice or Nurse Licensure Compact, are decided by each state’s legislature.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

However, providers are often financially challenged in the ability to offer the full scope of their interdisciplinary hospice services. Hospices have much to offer in terms of evidence that their services can improve quality and goal-concordant care delivery while reducing costs, Jackson stated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As hospices nationwide develop new services to engage patients further upstream, some are rebranding to reflect their expanded scope and to avoid the word “hospice” in their company names, hoping to ameliorate patients’ anxiety about end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many families lack familiarity with the scope of interdisciplinary palliative care and aren’t aware that these services can help address a variety of the physical, social and emotional aspects of serious illness, Belluomini stated. Participants reported seeking out information online and through parent support groups.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

No palliative program looks the same from area to area as far as the scope of diversity in services,” Esch told Palliative Care News at a recent conference from CAPC and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) in Washington D.C. Part of this question in palliative care is asking whether we are okay with the diversity of models.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In backing it, Collins and Warner also pressed payers to widen the scope of staff who can bill for these services, citing limited billing parameters that hinder patient access. The bill proposes to “wave,” or remove, Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing for advance care planning services.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

An outgoing nature, a desire to act as a patient advocate, and a willingness to function outside your comfort zone are among the attributes you need to be a successful surgical intensive care nurse. So says Kristina Massey, BSN, RN, CCRN-CSC, ECMO specialist and nursing unit director, cardiac surgery ICU/cardiac flex team at Carilion Roanoke […].

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Scope of psychedelic bereavement support A variety of psychedelics have been used by people experiencing prolonged periods of grief, including psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The organizations, both nonprofits, indicated that the affiliation would enable their combined company to expand geographically and further extend their scope of services, while contributing to their financial strength, according to a press release.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Hospice providers need the opportunity to reflect the full scope of care provided to patients experiencing serious illness.”. Thus, patients’ records do not reflect the full scope of care they receive, and hospice organizations lack a methodology for capturing the quantity or quality of telehealth visits.

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MAY 10, 2023

The wide breadth of service variety within the scope of palliative care presents another lever moving hospices’ investments in the space, especially in terms of reaching patients upstream, Farrand indicated during the Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. 2023 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. Palliative Care News photo).

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